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Thursday, April 19, 2012

China Glaze Magnetix Magnetic Polish in Pull Me Close

This polish has immediately made it into my top 10 favorite polishes. It's a very pretty grayish light blue. The application was very easy, the dry time was fast, the magnet worked well, and the brush--thin and long--was perfect for me. The polish dried shiny and was crazy shiny with Seche Vite on top. What I loved the most is that unlike a lot of my other polishes, this polish did not have any shrinkage from either the Seche Vite or my daily coat of Revlon Quick Dry Top Coat. The cleanup was very easy and minimal, too. This was the first time I used the E.L.F. Concealer Brush I bought on vacation to clean up the stray nail polish with acetone.

They sell the polish at Sally Beauty, but I bought mine online through a discount e-tailer for a very low price before my local Sally Beauty stores started to stock the magnetic polish.

It was difficult to capture the color in my photos, so I'm including lots of photos. In the photos the polish looks a lot more blue, even in the bottle, and less gray than it is IRL. In the pictures below, I'm originally wearing one coat of Sally Hansen Age Correct Growth (discontinued), two or so coats of China Glaze Magnetix Pull Me Close, and a coat of Seche Vite. Each day I added a coat of Revlon Quick Dry Top Coat. I have pictures below with one to four days' wear. Thanks to the lack of top coat shrinkage, I didn't have to do any patch jobs with the polish like I do with so many other of my manicures. I've been typing a lot and cleaning, and the polish is wearing really well.

These first pictures are just one coat of the polish, no magnetic effect applied yet, no cleanup, and I wasn't able to capture how pretty the color is on its own, but I tried!

The next few pictures were taken in my office the next day. The one with the dark background is under my desk using flash. The blue is much bluer than IRL in these pictures.

These next few pictures were taken in my car after a day of wear:

I took the next few pictures in the car on Tuesday, after two days' worth of wear. I did a little more cleanup practice with a brush and acetone that morning, too.

I took the next few pictures yesterday, after three days of wear.

These last pictures with the bottle I took a few minutes ago, so after four days of wear. The color is actually lighter or more gray IRL. I feel like the daily extra top coats may have blurred the magnetic effect a little, but I'm not sure.

UPDATE: the picture below is after a week's worth of wear on the manicure, just before I was about to take it off and paint my nails a new color. There is barely any tip wear, and it's still shiny and looks O.K. Sorry about the bathroom lighting; it's not the best lighting, that's for sure, right?

To see more pictures and read another review of this polish, go here to a recent post on Elfleidy's blog. She is another nail polish blogger here in Florida. I read her review just a few days before I did my own manicure with the polish. Her pictures are so nice!

On a different topic, I've gotten some awards from other bloggers and saw a very cool A-Z post that a lot of the bloggers I follow are doing, and I am working on my own post about the awards and with my A-Z information and will have that for you soon! This first week back at work after coming back from vacation has gone by very quickly, and I've been busier, so I haven't had as much time to blog.

6 comments:

I need to try out these magnetic polishes to see what the hype is about. I don't know if I like it from just looking at people's manis but I guess I need to try it out for myself! Love the color though!

Too bad you are in New York. If you lived nearby, you could come over and try my magnetic polishes!

For someone like me, who hasn't tried to create nail art, the magnetic polishes and the nail polish stickers are a way to have nice nail art even if you are a beginner.

Another thing I love about magnetic polish is that it has a kind of movement in the pattern as you move your fingers, like semi-dark parts will turn semi-light. I have a hard time not staring at them while moving my fingers. My favorite magnetic polishes so far, this one and another one from the same China Glaze line, look like stones like Tiger's Eye, with the same movement-effect or depth.

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